Last week we began investigating and researching for our topic, Misty Mountain Sierra. The children quickly found a number of key facts and lines of inquiry about mountains and in particular Mount Everest. We also used a diary text about climbing Everest for our guided reading sessions in class.
Today we have introduced maps of our local area to the children so we can develop map skills and map reading abilities (geography) before we look in more detail at places around the world.
In maths we are trialing single year group sessions this half term and covered prime numbers & factors with the year 5's whilst Year 4 did some skills recap and word problems.
In the coming weeks, both year groups will start to learn about fractions and related maths themes.
Our focus in literacy so far has been identifying and using fronted adverbials, expanded noun phrases and conjunctions. We spent time 'magpie-ing' interesting vocabulary from our Everest text and also introduced Thesauras and dictionary skills to develop the use of high quality language.
Finally, in addition to regular PE lessons, the children have been challenged to 'climb Everest' this half term. Using their measuring and multiplication skills the class worked out that they would need to jog/walk 200 laps of the school playground in order to cover the 12.5 miles to Everest base camp. As of writing we have a few children who are one quarter of the way!
Keep checking back to our blog as we hope to upload more topic and RE photos later this week.
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